Button.



e. H. MORRIS.

BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 13. 19M.

Patented June 11, 1918.

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ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR, BY ivinsnn ASSIGNMENTS, To

UNITED snon macrrinnnY CORPORATION, or PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPO- RATION OF NEW JERSEY.

BUTTON.

Patented Juneilll, 1918.

. Application filed July 13, 1914. Serial No. 850,743.

ToiaZZ whom it may concern: n

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. MORRIS, a subject of the King of England, residing at London, in the countyof Kent, England, have invented certain Improvementsin Buttons, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the drawings indicating like parts in the several figures. s n t n The present invention relates to improvements in buttons formed from a single piece metallic blank and its object is to provide a button which may; beeasily and cheaply constructed leaving only a small amount of waste and which shall possess a maximum amount of strength for the metal which it contains. The inventionalso includes within its scope the novelblank herein shown as utilized in the construction of the button. It has been found thatabuttoncomprising a head formed of two layers of sheet material of which the under layer comprises two parts connected by an eye possesses the advantages above mentioned in addition to others. For example, with little or no modification the metallicblank may be utilized in the construction of an enameled or japanned button or a button having a covering of celluloid or other plastic coating.

As herein shown the head. of the button is provided with a covering the line of division between the two parts which comprises the under portion of the head. The overlying portion may be flattened or made convex in accordance with the, shape desired inthe finished buttom and it may be of such dimensions compared with the lower part of the head as to tie covering materia Another feature of the invention relates to the eye of the button and consists in swaging or otherwise beveling the sheet metal stock from which the eye is formed so that it Will present a curved edge over which theattaching thread is drawn, so that the latter will not be cut, and also curved edges adjacent to the head, so that the edges of the buttonhole will not be frayed.

These and other features and advantages of the invention will be best understood and appreciated from the following description of preferred embodiments thereof selected its middle as V I the eye of the button which isforined from tl11s connector willhavea rounded or bevportion overlying and for purposesof illustration and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a plan of a blank according to the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of a button formed of the blank shown in Fig.

Fig. 3: is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. ive-is a plan of atmodifiedform of blank; i

' Fig, 5 is a sectional View of a complete button embodying the/blank shown in Fig. 4:;

n Fig.- 6 is amodified 'formofthe complete blank shown in Fig. 5. s t

r The blank shown in Fig. 1 comprises two semi-circular portions A and Aflthe straightsides of which are joined by a bar erronnector A Th periphery a short connectlng piece B;having at its outerend a disk 13 The blank is formed by stamping or pressing from sheetof brass or other suitable material andthe pressing or stamping dies are preferably soformedthat the connector A will be somewhat hollowed at shownin Fig. 3, :in order that elededge andwill therefore be less liable to out the thread by whichthe button is affixed. Adjacent to its ends the connector A is rounded in' an opposite outer edges of the eye will present a smooth and rounded surface which will not fray the buttonhole. v i

The blank having been formed is'bent so I that the two straightedges'of the semi-cirform a retaining shoulder for the ,plas.

cular portions A and A lie close together, to form the base of the head of the button, the connector A being bent in such a way as to form the eye thereof. The short connecting piece B and the disk B are then doubled over the semi-circular portions A and A as shown in Fig. 2 so as to form a neat button.

The head thus formed may then be covered with celluloid, leather or other suitable material or it may if desired be merely enameled. The disk B may be dished in stamping so that it is more readily formed into the dome-shaped head shown in Fig. 2.

According to the modified construction e semi-circular portiongflk has promoting from the middle of the semicircular 1 part of its sense so that the v spending portions shown in Fig. 1.

easy manner and that the same may 4, 5 and 6 the semi-circular A the connector A and the B are similar to the corre- The disk B is, however, of smaller diameter than the semi-circular portions A and A so that when bent over as shown in Fig. 5 it lies within the edge of these portions. In this way the button when covered may be readily given a beveled edge. Further, if the disk B is dished during the process shown in Figs. portions A and connecting plece of stamping the head of the button may be convex as shown in Fig. 6 and the convexity will be the more pronounced owing to the fact that the disk is of smaller diameter than the semi-circular portions.

It will be noted by referring to Figs. 5 and 6 that a substantially complete circular shoulder is formed adjacent to the edge of the head on account of the difference in diameter of the overlying portion B and the underlying portions and A. This shoulder serves as an anchorage for securing-the plastic covering in place. The plastic covering in turn serves as means for permanently maintaining the two parts of the head in contact with each other and positively prevents their separation.

It will therefore be seen that according to the present invention a button of substantially the usual shape may be made from a single piece metallic blank in a rapid arid e covered in the usual way with celluloid, or the like, or if made according to Figs. 1 and 2 may be merely enameled or coated in a like manner.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States:

head hav- 1. A metal button comprising a ing a covering part with a circular periphery, an under part comprising two semicircular sections disposed with straight edges abutting, and an eye connected at either end'to one section and having a convex outer surface adjacent to the sections more easily made Copies of this patient may be obtained for five cents and a concave outer surface remote from said section.

2. A button comprising a head formed of two layers of sheet material, the under layer comprising two parts connected only by an eye integral therewith and formed from the sheet of which the p arts are formed.

3. A button comprising a head formed of two layers of sheet material, the under layer comprising two semi-circular parts disposed with their straight sides adjacent to each other, and an eye merging at each'end into one of the semi-circular parts at its straight at. A button comprising an eye, each side of which merges into a flat part disposed at right angles to the plane of the eye and forming a part of the head said partsbeing otherwise unconnected at adjacentedges, and a single head-forming part overlying both of said flat parts, said flat parts,eye, and head-forming part being formed from a single piece of sheet material.

5. A button having a head comprising two layers of sheet material integrally connected at one edge and folded fiatwise upon each other, and a plastic covering molded over the edges of both layers.

6. A button having a head comprising curved superimposedlayers of sheet material of different diameters integrallyconnected at one edge, and a plastic covering.

7. A button blank havi g two head parts connected by a narrow strip of sheet mate rial, said strip having its center portion convexed and its end portions concaved.

8. A button having a sheet metal head and a sheet metal eye with its edges swaged outwardly at the curve of the eye and inwardly adjacent to the head.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE H. MORRIS.

WVitnesses:

O. J. WORTH, C. W. DAY.

each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. G. 

